Satguru Siva Yogaswami Jaffna, Sri Lanka		Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Kauai's Hindu Monastery, USA

Title: Dealing with Discouragement
Category: Self Improvement
Duration: 12 minutes, 42 seconds
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Date Given: March 7, 2002
Date Posted: March 23, 2002
Given by: Bodhinatha

Cybertalk: How do we deal with discouragement? Gurudeva gave us a tool, the vasana daha tantra, to deal with events that hit us emotionally. The subconscious mind dutifully throws up memories that bother us so we can resolve them. Still not inspired? How do we uplift ourselves again? Worship.

How do we prevent negative things from happening to us in the first place? Sangam, fellowship, or spiritual companionship, with those on the spiritual path. Another way to keep negative things from happening is to ask ourselves the question, "How is my daily sadhana going?" Keep it going with diligence. The power of diksha, initiation, is sustained and increased by doing the sadhanas required of the initiate, such as chanting your mantra if you were given mantra diksha. This sustains spiritual unfoldment. Otherwise, we automatically regress.

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